Data from: An integrative genomic analysis of the Longshanks selection experiment for longer limbs in mice
João P. L. Castro, Michelle N. Yancoskie, Marta Marchini, Stefanie Belohlavy, Layla Hiramatsu, Marek Kučka, William H. Beluch, Ronald Naumann, Isabella Skuplik, John Cobb, Nick H. Barton, Campbell Rolian & Yingguang Frank Chan
Evolutionary studies are often limited by missing data that are critical to understanding the history of selection. Selection experiments, which reproduce rapid evolution under controlled conditions, are excellent tools to study how genomes evolve under selection. Here we present a genomic dissection of the Longshanks selection experiment, in which mice were selectively bred over 20 generations for longer tibiae relative to body mass, resulting in 13% longer tibiae in two replicates. We synthesized evolutionary theory,...